Surprised!?
Well I definitely was not expecting that.
Tbh I was expecting to listen to music and that is why I bought that set. Was that listed on the contents? I don’t remember. They arrived securely with the five disc music album of various artists according to the theme and a vinyl record by the band Aleister Crowley. Or so I thought was a band.
Thus I acquired that strange, ancient and mystical technology being reintroduced into society called the “record player”, let it sit in my living room for some time, and today finally decided to go through the trouble of opening the box and plugging it in.
I examined that object of recorded audio curiously as the mystery it was. Which side is A and which side is B? What speed? What are those symbols? They look like numbers… sort of… but something is different. With a closer look angling the light so I could see better, they are revealed to be runes. Huh. I wonder what they say.
As my first record played, in the place of my expectations I received a pleasant surprise.
“That was a live recording of Aleister Crowley speaking his Word,” I thought in some fashion after it was finished.
…man is the master of his spirit. Not “God”, nor you fools playing at being one, and you shall know the wrath of my spirit’s master when I bring my vengeance upon you! I will find you, I will take you out of your dark hiding place, and I will hold you in the light of day by your throat until you are reduced to ash! Damned hipster leeches. That is why I have a synthetic hand in the future btw.
I supposed I ought to buy a record now that I have the paraphernalia to listen to one…
The crux of Aleister Crowley as he relates to me is that in his time he did what the universal act of fulfillment is that I also did in my time, and has been done over and over again throughout the last two thousand years. The difference between my time and everyone else’s is social media via the internet. That made my efforts far more efficient and successful than was possible any other time. However, you can’t hold that against other people because when you are aware of the problem, you cannot let anything stop you, no matter what the limitations or resources are, and you have to at least make your best effort.
“Have to”, is kind of a subjective term. There are no rules to these kinds of things, but that’s basically how love, war, and divinity works. When you do something, you fully commit to doing it and do not hold back when it comes to the specifics of what is being done. Meaning when you are in military service, you do your job to the best of your ability within reason because of how important it is to everyone else and not yourself. You put everyone else’s needs before your own, with those people being the citizens not in the military during war or peace, and that is why you “have to” do your best. It is the only good thing. Any half-assed effort is in fact a “sin” unto your own conscience that you likely will have to confront someday.
Love is like that, except generally the effort is for your romantic interest, spouse, partner, etc. Their needs come before your own, and that is why the concept is the same. Their life before yours, meaning when you do something for them, you do your best, within reason. Divinity is like that too, because of how important the divine is in relation to all things. It is only fitting that you give your absolute best in all divine matters, because of how good, honored, respected, and wonderful that divinity is. Divinity is merciful, charitable, and infinitely patient, but that benevolence should not be abused by doing inferior work or committing sins because you think that goodness cannot express violence and wrath, when it most certainly can. “All’s fair in love, war, and Christ.”
Aleister Crowley, as far as I am aware, was the closest person before me to accomplish what I set out to do as well. I don’t think that it was the right time during his life though… which is why it didn’t happen. I mean that mainly because of the vast difference in society that computer technology has caused in such a short time. If world leaders had been responsible during those years and not tried to keep people in ignorance about the philosophical and moral truth of circumcision and how Christianity applies to the topic, that would have happened a long time ago, even before Crowley’s time. Yet… tyrants have been shitty pricks from too much butt fucking and they slowed humanity down for a long time.
They cannot do that anymore because now it is them who do not have the ability to reach enough people or influence enough of the world. Now it is them who are ignorant, trapped in their own self-imposed darkness, and without the ability to do anything. Those world leaders have lost everything because of how foolish they have ruled over the years. Now, nobody respects them, cares what they think, or trusts them. Nobody who matters anyway, who are 98 percent of people world wide who contribute to society by working.
Also, the dawn of the information age, which I think is what sets this one apart from the others, is also a testament to the good of scientific research, study, and thinking. For the longest time science had been considered something evil, untrustworthy, and superstitious, but these days, it is the other way around. As such, the tyrants cannot inflate superstitious paranoia with religious propaganda to counteract whatever claims scientists are making. Meaning, facts win the day more than beliefs now, and the facts are that not only is circumcision unnecessary and of no benefit, but it is harmful to people far more than anything else people claim about it. Do not be mistaken though, because there is a spiritual “science” to faith and theology, it is just done entirely within a very real but imaginary workshop and/or laboratory that exists in your own mind, and it stays that way for a reason.
A lot of idolatrous morons on the Republican side still try to force ignorance on people, but they are losing all credibility extremely fast. Especially after the most recent idiot Republican tried to use paranoia through national leadership in an attempt to manipulate the public. That was the last straw for all people, and the camel’s back has been broken, as the saying goes. Those rotten tyrants riding it have to walk on their own now, and it looks like they are enfeebled from generations of inability, lack of work, and inherited ignorance, so they may not make it out, and I have other concerns to care about than their useless, parasitic burden.
So, no what I did is not so different from a lot of other people, and I knew that when I started. I think the government assumed I was ignorant of that fact, but they must not have understand the reference I made to Crowley in StoryTeller, if they read it. In the book, Vaks kills another StoryTeller with a slant-moniker to Crowley… I don’t know what else to call that type of literary technique at the moment. That’s not meant to be an insult, but an honor. In the future, when someone “kills” me, that is exactly what needs to happen.
Future generations surpass past generations by being greater because past generations pave the way, prepare resources, and do everything within their power to make that happen. That’s what StoryTeller is all about, revealing all that I can about reality, however imperfect it may be, so someone can use that material, make it perfect, and do even more good than we are able to do in our time because of what that idea inspires for people, and also inspire people in my time to do greater works of story with the similar kind of spiritual mechanics StoryTeller makes clear. That story is rather unrefined, amateur, and full of errors, but not as many plot holes as some may think, but I simply did not write through them.
There is substance there, but I chose to not include it because I felt it would distract from the theme. I can add that story in another book at another time. I would hope a lot of aspiring authors will read that, and think… “I can do better than this,” and then go on to do so. That would make me happy to see because I always enjoy good works, especially when they are not mine. I often stress about my own and spend more time laboring than I do simply enjoying them, but that is good in a different way. That said, I have improved quite a bit since that first work, and I intend to continue to improve, even if I have been out of the fiction scene for some time so I can clear some space for me to work in peace.
Sometimes, when you make up something from your imagination, no matter how foolish or silly it may be and just grab the closest words in mind that fit for your purpose, those words may have a much deeper meaning than you intended because of the spot they were in when you connected them. It’s like being at the right place at the right time, reaching into the mysteries of the universe, pulling out what you grab, and ou la! Faster than light travel is now possible because you made a random joke while romancing your galactic-physics study partner, and now we can cross not only the void within a galaxy, but the void between galaxies.
People who do these things don’t do them for the glory or the reward. We do them for the goodness that they accomplish being available to people other than ourselves. The more selfless your pursuits of science, technology, medicine, and scholarship are, the more fruitful your labors will be. You can certainly enjoy all that stuff for yourself, but if you want to accomplish something that is done on the shoulders of giants, it’s best if you direct your goals to everyone else’s good along with yours, and placing your interests last.
You damn idolatrous fools! That vile traitorous fiend that cursed the USA as a president and whom so many imbeciles want to worship did nothing like what I am referring to! He gave his life to worldly pursuits, secular goals, and all that is evil about the world! He devoted his soul to evil, mammon, and all that is of the Devil. He did nothing spiritual, no good acts, and only made problems far worse than they already were. People like Crowley and myself, give all that we are to spiritual pursuits of a higher conceptual reality and true good, and become spiritual leaders specifically apart from national politicking. Those worldly endeavors are always so filthy and corrupt that the people who engage in them cannot accomplish anything good without it being corrupted too!